Below are the 5 Business Analysts, 4 Functional Consultants & 4 Supply Chain Analysts with JDA & other systems experience. These and other SCM professionals with JDA expertise are provided by The Thor Group® on a consulting, contracting or direct hire basis.

Would hiring a senior business analyst-retail systems with experience working in retail and IT industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of MSCS in Information Systems. This professional has received a Malcolm Baldrige Award from UPS/Mainframe Integration System. Software skills include JDA and Oracle.

Acting as a senior business analyst-retail systems, has completed the successful implementation of the Oracle Locate module. Locate added not only store fulfillment of other store orders, but fulfillment of ecomm orders from the stores, and fulfillment of store orders from ecomm, resulting in an increase in revenue in 2016 of $17 million. Also, has implemented the Aptos 6.4 POS system for a retail brand. Some of the tasks were writing Business Requirements Documents, getting approvals, and then creating user stories and tasks, aside from following through to implementation at the end of each sprint. Previous successful implementations included acting as lead analyst for the global Oracle/Micros Xstore POS system, including miStore handhelds, and the inventory module, which eliminated an AS/400 inventory system and concomitant costs.

While working as a business analyst, has served as a functional lead for implementation of JDA Enterprise Planning and JDA Allocation. Internal responsibilities have included business requirements and design specifications or recommendations for changes to the Oracle-based merchandising system; change requirements and support for interfaces to the JDA systems while serving as lead analyst (Enterprise Planning and JDA Allocation). The job entailed business requirements and design specifications for the POS system and providing subject matter expertise for any functions.

Does employing a business analyst who served a gastroenterological practice meet your organization’s requirements? Software proficiency includes the use of JDA, Oracle, SQL, Team Foundation Server, Rational Rose and Microsoft Visio. Expertise is shown in managing program and project efforts for eCommerce, Supply Chain, XML, CMS, web-based applications, business strategy and website content. Advantage involves extensive experience in gathering business/ application requirements, business processes, identifying risks, impact analysis, UML (Unified Modeling Language) modeling, sequence and activity diagrams.

Working in a doctor’s office, this business analyst worked in an agile development environment fractioning out the functionalities of electronic medical record (EMR) and practice management & billing software. The job called for working independently without any upfront documentation to follow, along with gathering business requirements by interviewing subject matter experts (SME) as well as end-users, nurses and physicians. The individual worked on JDA for supply chain management and payroll management. Assistance was given to recognizing the weaknesses in the existing functionality of electronic medical record (EMR) system besides adding other functionalities. Business requirements documents and functional specification were documented in detail using Rational Requisite Pro.

Functions included creating UML diagrams with the help of Rational Rose to understand the process flow, while also conducting JAD sessions periodically in order to resolve any issues in requirements, development or testing. A structured approach was followed to organize requirements into logical groupings of essential ambulatory practice processes and billing software and ensured that the critical requirements were met.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this business analyst who worked in retail and automotive industries? Educational attainment is composed of BA in Psychology and MBA. Professional certifications include Cert. of Accountancy. Application skills consist of JDA Enterprise Planning Suite, BW Analyzer, DMR Portal, SAP, Hyperion, SmartView, Lawson, ePro, InfoPro, Essbase, QuickBooks, Great Plains and PeopleSoft 7 and 8.

Contributed to the organization’s success by leading the JDA Enterprise Planning Administration and maintaining Plan as well as Forecasting data. While employed in a retail company as a business analyst, has created ad hoc reports supporting Inventory, Replenishment and Finance Merchandising. Other duties were doing daily weather impact reporting, monthly clearance forecast ladders, daily sales forecast update, as well as quarterly clearance lookbacks-forecast vs. actuals.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by acting as business partner, advisor and control function for the maintenance plant. Serving as a business controller in an automotive company, was responsible for preparation of annual budget and periodic forecasts of labor overhead, controllable materials and capital expenditures. Some of the tasks were analyzing monthly financial results and reporting variances to budget and forecast, as well as processing expenditure requests, analyzing cost versus benefits. Moreover, has tracked spending for approved projects. In addition, has presented financial information and variance analysis in weekly plant cost meetings.

Is impacting your organization with a senior IT business analyst who worked in manufacturing, retail and logistics industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor in Business Administration. Professional certifications include RCMS Certification Planners/Op Managers and Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt. Software expertise consists of JDA, SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft.

While employed as a senior IT business analyst, has developed reports for seven sales and supply chain teams using a variety of third party and front end tools (RSi, 1010 Data Excel with VB functionality, Power BI) to gain insights that lead to incremental sales growth and cost savings valued at well over $10 Million dollars. This professional has transitioned five sales and supply chain retail teams from legacy in-house reporting solutions to third party data providers, resulting in minimized disruption to reporting needs of the business and new insights gained to increase productivity. Also, has served as liaison between business users and application service providers. Moreover, has conducted business process Gap Analysis between To-Be design and SAP standard Business Processes, as well as made recommendations for Process Improvement.

As a senior global supply chain BA (business analyst), key accomplishments were implementing JDA TMS and Last Mile Visibility globally apart from developing global metrics and new customer surveys. Customer satisfaction was up 50% after implementation of TMS and LMV. In addition, has improved customer service delivery by 40%, with new customer support application. Furthermore, has increased production by 30% by adding in WMS (Warehouse Management System) to all DC’s (distribution centers) and plants.

What contributions could a business analyst who worked extensively in the food production and retail industry bring to your organization? Software know-how involves JDA Forecast, Planning and Scheduling software. Core competencies involve Lean Manufacturing, Warehouse, Logistics, Supply Chain, Optimization, Master Data, Data Migration and Cross-Functional Team Leadership. This individual has attained finished goods forecast accuracy consistently near 95% for top 5 highest volume customers.

As a lead analyst for JDA supply and demand management at a food production and retail company, order fill rate climbed to 92%, which was the highest rate recorded, saving the company nearly $500K and shortened AOP preparation time from 8 weeks to 3 weeks. The successful deployment provided a cost avoidance of over $1M through preemptive management of taxable vendor MRO and supplies, as well as decreased manufacturing total variance account by 20%. Challenges like aligning IT business analysis group with strategic executive level business development strategy were welcomed and successfully completed on a regular basis. This professional helped increase production order costing settlement accuracy by 25% by modifying the chart of account hierarchy and cost center postings to more clearly define and identify the variances amounts hitting the ledger.

Shared expertise by providing continued support, troubleshooting, and strategic input of supply chain applications in demand, supply and vendor managed inventory business units. Also, has served as a main IT resource providing support, enhancements and upgrades for JDA Forecast, Planning and Scheduling software. This initiative resulted in a $1.5 million-dollar reduction in distressed goods vs. prior year with JDA Fulfillment implementation and subsequent fine tuning as well as optimization of application and peripheral forecast and planning business processes. Furthermore, has managed a 99.95% JDA planning system uptime percentage by being proactive with database tuning, optimization and preventative maintenance. Batch script and system schema tuning also contributed to excellent uptime rate.

Would hiring a PMM CSS functional analyst with experience working in software and financial services industries help meet the needs of your organization? Software/hardware skills include JDA, Micrografx Flowchart I/CSCS and C/SCSC. Has good understanding of JDA software packages. Core competencies include Performance Evaluation & Measurement System (Earned Value Techniques) and Foresight.

Acting as a PMM CSS functional analyst, this individual was responsible for assuring quality for a product as it relates to functionality, stability, and usability to meet customer’s needs. This specialist was responsible for identifying, preparing, executing and evaluating tests of client server software. Some of the tasks were making pass/fail determination for assigned modules, as well as maintaining case libraries and testing documentation apart from communicating results to appropriate parties. Moreover, has functioned as a liaison with other teams. In addition, has developed Client Relations Management Procedures (CRM) and conducted CRM calls to PMM clients.

While working for a financial services company, the job entailed providing updates to Senior Management and supporting forecasting products. Part of the job was to formulate and define system requirements and objectives through research and fact-finding. Moreover, has compiled data on imbedded intelligence in card products, such as Business Rules, Logic, Exceptions or Overrides to these rules.

Could the future success of your organization be helped by this sr. functional consultant/solution architect with work experience in software and retail industries? Educational attainment is composed of coursework in Marketing and Business / Management. Computer skills involve JDA Space Planning Professional, JDA Floor Planning Professional and AS/400. Areas of expertise consists of Merchandising, Category Strategy, Marketing Analysis and Forecasting.

Contributed to the organization’s success by facilitating/leading business diagnostics, process analysis and designing workshops in determining business requirements as well as developing solution design document supporting agreement. While employed as a sr. functional consultant/solution architect, has identified requirements for development of customized software solutions by leading design session on effective business processes for Space Planning, Intactix Data Base and Floor Planning. This professional has developed business process guides for Space Planning and Floor Planning process allowing users to test software and confirm performance, providing resolution and/or meeting additional requirements identified.

Supported organizational goals and objectives by accurately identifying and quantifying fixture, hardware, and equipment needs for new and retrofit retail stores resulting in 10% in decrease fixture order waste. As a retail space planning manager, has oversaw preparation of merchandise sets using computerized space management systems; coordinated product placement by accurately analyzing plan-o-grams based on inventory turns, dollars per square foot and cost margins. In addition, has developed and managed space planning department as well as hired, trained and supervised up to 15 employees. Furthermore, has enabled demographic and regional plan-o-gram variations through the selection and introduction of Intactix system including web interfaces for space planning, store planning, and data management as well as interface into JDA E-3 replenishment software.

Is impacting your organization with a functional support lead who worked in retail and manufacturing industries a current business consideration? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelors of Engineering in Metallurgical and Materials Science. This supply chain consultant has 9 years of experience in the IT and Supply Chain domain in the CPG industry. Also, was actively involved in the Best Practices group for Manugistics supply chain management (SCPO) suite of packages owned by JDA, including version 6.x and 7.x, particularly strong on the Replenishment and the Fulfillment area of Supply Chain. Moreover, has acted as a tech lead for implementing JDA 7.6 versions for Demand, Fulfillment, and Master Planning for Building Materials Corporations of America. In addition, is a recipient of the “Most Valuable Player Award” for retail and logistics division from various companies as well as Kraft Hall of Fame and Competency Star award for outstanding contribution to Advance Planning and Scheduling portfolio. Tools & technology expertise involves JDA Manugistics 6.1.5, 6.1.7, 6.1.8, 7.2.2, 7.4.2, 7.5.2, 7.6.0 in Production Planning, Fulfillment Planning (DRP and Deployment), Master Planning, and Terra Technologies Short Term Pacing implementation. ERP modules skills include Production Planning, Master Planning, Fulfillment Planning, Networks Collaborate, and Networks Demand for JDA Manugistics.

While employed in a manufacturing company as a functional support lead/consultant, has worked on the Advanced Planning and Scheduling suite of applications of JDA’s Manugistics. Some of the tasks were supervising operations correlated with demand planning, demand fulfillment, scheduling and transportation planning, material requirements planning and master production schedule. Technical skill set acquired during this period are UNIX, Oracle, Mainframes (COBOL, DB2, and CICS) and JDA Manugistics v6.1.8, 7.2.1, 7.5.

Part of the job as a functional support lead was to look after the entire production support portfolio of Advanced Planning and Scheduling area in a 24 x 7 Global delivery model and making sure uninterrupted business continuity to the end users. Moreover, has expertise in modeling and configuration of JDA’s Manugistics Fulfillment and Network Manager package for Supply Chain planning and logistics.

What contributions could a functional consultant with experience working in manufacturing and IT industries bring to your organization? Educational background is composed of Industrial Engineering. This professional is skilled in JDA Supply Chain Solutions for Demand Management (Demand, Demand Classification, Demand 360, Market Manager, Collaborate), Category Management (Space Planning, Floor Planning, IKB) and Project Management JDA-JEM methodology. Educational attainment involves Supply Chain Management Diploma and Demand Planning Diploma. Professional certifications consist of Quality Assurance Certifications and ISO 9000 Lead Auditor Certification. Software skills include JDA Solutions, Oracle/SQL and i2.

Challenges like developing and coordinating System Integration tests (SIT), end user acceptance tests (BIT), end user training, issue tracking and resolution in coordination with technical team were welcomed and successfully completed. As a functional consultant in a manufacturing company, has worked on Go-Live preparation, support and post Go-live support (Nurture). Project scope involved JDA Demand/360/Market Manager upgrade (v7.6 to v8.1) Functional leader for Market upgrades.

Shared expertise by leading JDA implementations, overall/functional implementation (time and materials mainly), project administration/implementation through JDA-JEM methodology. While working as a solution architect/project manager/solution trainer, has worked on business diagnostics, as-is analysis, solutions designs proposals to fit business needs for supply chain processes (demand planning, Inventory and replenishment planning). Also, served as a JDA Latam Space Planning trainer. Furthermore, had implementations deep knowledge and understanding of retail and manufacturing supply chain as well as space planning processes and requirements.

Would it be beneficial for your organization to employ a senior supply chain analyst with experience working in manufacturing and retail industries? Key highlights involved leading demand planning for #1 highest revenue brand (28M cans annually) achieving SKU National forecast accuracy from <65% to >80% in 6-months. A key accomplishment was overseeing brand entry into retail company starting with 100 stores and increasing to 3,000 stores nationwide with $40M in annual revenue, as well as leading S&OP process as well as consensus forecasting alignment for highest revenue producing business, worth $796M. Software skills include JDA.

Serving as a senior supply chain analyst/production planner in a supplies/equipment company, has managed global supply of 3 generations of transcatheter heart valves (THV). This specialist has served as a point person for JDA supply side implementation. Also, has achieved all customer service level targets during period of enormous growth (50% volume increase). Moreover, has driven successful migration of earlier generations’ valve production from Irvine to Singapore and newer generation value production integration into Irvine.

In support of a manufacturing company as a demand planning lead, has owned Supply and Demand Process (SDM) for 800 top selling items in US and Canada, bringing in-stock level from 87% to 98% in 1-year. This professional has built synergies and improved processes through key communication with field sales force and operational plants. In addition, has improved strategic allocation of resources (manufacturing capacity, labor, and raw materials), decreased ‘slack’ in supply chain and improved customer service.

Would a detail-oriented supply chain analyst with work experience in distribution and telecom industries fit in your organization? Educational background is composed of BSBA Major in Finance and MBA with Specialization in Supply Chain and Strategic Management. Technical summary consists of JDA, AS/400, PIM, SMART, Cost Maintenance/Unique Purchase Order Tool, CrossLoop, LogMeIn System, MLS & PrimeAccess, Active CMA/Real Fast, ARGUS valuation software, HOGAN and Wizard. Other expertise involves forecasting, procurement, and purchasing experience via supply chain and inventory management, from comprehensive data analysis to querying.

Some accomplishments included improving supply chain processes; inventory optimization, supply chain and operations forecasting, processing transfer orders and purchase orders as well as recommending inventory item purchases. While working in a distribution company as a buyer/supply chain analyst, has updated records on purchase orders and vendors internally via Oracle ERP, as well as worked on requirements gathering and documentation. As a business analyst-contractor, has developed and performed detailed customer audits that identify revenue recovery and cost savings opportunities. Also, has isolated and researched negative or non-optimal margin services, as well as analyzed the business drivers, determined root cause and worked with functional as well as business teams to resolve issues.,

Shared expertise by carrying out data mining and extraction via queries of JDA, as well as data analysis and performance report creation. While employed as a supply chain analyst, has improved supply chain processes; inventory optimization and forecasting. Furthermore, has managed distribution channels of telecommunication handsets and accessories for Cricket owned stores and national retailers via JDA/SQL/Excel/Access/PowerPoint/Outlook/PIM.

How can a sr. supply chain analyst who worked in manufacturing and IT solutions industries help your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor’s in Business Administration. This professional has worked with JDA, Cognos, Rapid Response, SAP, Hyperion, Business Objects, Smartsheet and Tableau.

Working with challenging issues such as developing trend analysis and training of process to understand order to cash metrics have vetted this specialist’s work experience. Acting as a sr. supply chain analyst in an IT solutions company, has provided weekly visualization reporting and preparation of a dashboard reporting platform to drive insight and support strategic decision making for directors and site managers. This specialist has translated complex information to the delivery group of high quality visualization and reported the latest YTD OTD percentages by sites and overall averages for 2018. Also, has juggled multiple projects and meeting deadlines to and from data visualization platforms. Moreover, has constantly worked with relational databases and worked with large data structures as well as published the Inventory Flash Reports.

With a “can do approach” in the area of providing insights and strategic demand planning recommendations have been career objectives. As a supply chain analyst in a manufacturing company, has tracked key metrics to demonstrate sales expectations with regards to recognizing revenue. Some of the tasks were preparing sales periodic reviews for several toys to update demands in JDA. In addition, has created forecasting business reviews to provide quantitative POS analysis for part codes. Furthermore, has provided process improvements and executed shortfall reports for current sales force behavior.

Would hiring a supply chain analyst with experience working in retail and telecom industries help meet the needs of your organization? Educational attainment is composed of Bachelor of Science in Supply Chain Management. Has over 10 years of experience in Inventory control successfully reducing shrinkage and has over five years of experience in Supply Chain price bidding to vendor and company satisfaction. Technical proficiencies involve JDA, Oracle and SAP.

Acting as an inventory analyst in a retail company, has worked on cycle count warehouse/sales floor through the use of RF scan and physical inventory count. Some of the tasks were reconciling and researching variances, as well as auditing merchandise activity and updating storage location through a software company. Part of the job was to destruct damaged items to maintain inventory, as well as track and reconcile OS & D through Excel report.

While working for a telecom company as a supply chain analyst, has strong understanding of Oracle (PO and AP) and JDA, as well as served as point of contact for Oracle related analysis and research. Other duties were administering requisitions per the purchasing policy and other services related to the different organizations supported, as well as monitoring requisitions through PO creation, receiving and invoice payment to reduce outstanding PO issues. Additional responsibilities were validating proper supporting documents per the procurement guidelines, submitting PO, as well as working with vendors and engineers in establishing correct item codes/models.